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Jonathan Addleton is an American author and diplomat. He served as the 8th U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia from 2009 to 2012. Addleton was born in 1957 in Pakistan, the son of Baptist missionaries from rural Georgia. He spent his early years with his parents in Upper Sind then attended the Murree Christian School, located at an old British Himalayan hill station near the tiny crossroads town of Jhika Gali in the Murree hills of Rawalpindi District, Punjab province. 〔 (Murree Christian School )〕 He went on to attend college at Northwestern University, where he received his bachelor’s in journalism. He later earned his MA and PhD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. As an undergraduate he was an intern and then a reporter at The Macon Telegraph. He worked briefly at the World Bank and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, before joining the Foreign Service in 1984. His first assignments were as USAID Program Officer in Jordan, Kazakhstan, South Africa, and Yemen.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ambassador to Mongolia: Who is Jonathan Addleton? )〕 From 2001-2004 Addleton as USAID mission director in Mongolia. He then headed the USAID missions in Cambodia (2004-2006) and Pakistan (2006-2007). Addleton was Counselor for International Development at the US Mission to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, when President Barack Obama nominated him to be ambassador to Mongolia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts )〕 His publishing credits include a memoir of his childhood in Pakistan, ''Some Far and Distant Place'', ''Undermining the Centre: The Gulf Migration and Pakistan'', and ''Mongolia and the United States: A Diplomatic History''. He has also contributed articles to ''Asian Survey'', ''Asian Affairs'', ''Muslim World'', ''Foreign Service Journal'' and The Washington Post. He speaks Urdu and Hindi. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jonathan Addleton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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